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Advanced users • Re: Any changes around how sym link permissions work in bookworm?

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Excuse me, but what do you have against security ?
Nothing most of the time.

But it's my machine and I'll do as I like with it, will decide on what security it needs and doesn't.
You have the user 'pi', even when Raspberry pi has acknowledged that using 'pi' as a username isn't really a good idea.
It's certainly not in some cases but I have decided it's perfectly fine in my circumstances.
Why do have a user called 'guest' ? What is wrong with the user 'nobody' ? A user that doesn't have a home directory and isn't allowed to login.
Quite simply because I wanted another account which could be logged into. A user account which no one can login to would be useless to me. Using "guest" is what I prefer to use.
Why change the permissions on the users home directories to allow everyone in with read permissions ?
Because it was the quickest and easiest solution to overcoming an issue which the change in Bookworm created. I simply returned it to how things were pre-Bookworm and don't consider it an increased security risk in my deployment.
You are quite correct, it is your machine and you can do want you like, but, in my opinion, you shouldn't post your methods on any forum in a way that sounds like it is the recommended way of doing things. The defaults were changed for a reason and that reason was security.

Statistics: Posted by hortimech — Sat Jan 04, 2025 9:36 pm



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